General & Others Be Prepared For The Gorosei To Be A Lot Less "Special" Than You Think

#1
Every arc it feels like we get speculation about the new antagonist where people speculate they're more of an anomaly than they actually are.

Some recent examples:

"Kaido is a dragon that ate a human devil fruit"

"Kaido is actually a Poneglyph that was fed a fruit and that's why he's so durable" (in retrospect this is one of the most bizzare theories of all time)

"Kaido's fruit is called the Uo Uo no Mi because originally he was a fish, and the dragon is his awakened mode"

Reality:
Kaido... ate a dragon devil fruit.

:few:

We're seeing the same thing now:
"Saturn is a demon that ate a human devil fruit/takes a human form"

"Saturn has demonic powers that we have never seen before, these are not from a devil's fruit"

"Saturn's abilities are from haki, his regeneration is a reverse haki technique" (saw a JJK fan say this lmfao)

:lawsigh:
If we follow the same pattern and apply it here:
Saturn... probably just ate a Gyuuki fruit... and had the immortality surgery

I'm not saying the above theories are impossible or anything like that, but just don't forget occam's razor: the simple and obvious explanation is usually the right one.
 
#8
I think Saturn's powers are time based. Saturn is Chronos after all.

Regenerating (time reversal on a small area), Freezing/Locking People (time freeze of each persons area, or the focused area they were in, which would explain why Luffy wasn't frozen as he was further away from the group.)
It's ok to look for parallels to mythology, especially in the case of Saturn where he literally shares the same name as Saturn/Chronos.

But at the same time, his fruit is almost certainly Gyuuki/Ushi Oni, which has no connections to Greek/Roman mythology or temporal manipulation.

Just keep your expectations in check.
 
#10
I think Saturn's powers are time based. Saturn is Chronos after all.

Regenerating (time reversal on a small area), Freezing/Locking People (time freeze of each persons area, or the focused area they were in, which would explain why Luffy wasn't frozen as he was further away from the group.)
And that would explain why the blood was also regenerated. He even gave Bonney her time based abilities.

Saturn is going to look more broken than expected if he can fuck with time.
 
#16
The only thing I need to know about the Gorosei is whether they're Just promoted Holy Knights that go through some ritual to gain "immortality" or whether they've been around for centuries.

If they were around for THAT long they would he responsible for almost all of the suffering in the OP world and narratively extremely important.

- Like Nusjuro was a rival to Ryuma and created the Heavenly tribute system
- Topman founded the Navy

Etc etc

Great Pirates and Marines come and go ever 20-30 years.
 
#17
The whole "Saturn is actually a real demon and can turn into a human" is so reminiscent of "Kaido is actually a real dragon and can turn into a human" it's kind of scary lol
You know, I actually gave that theory some thought as Kaido was stated to be non human.

But nonetheless this clearly looks like a DF power. we know it is because we only see the black mist in Saturn’s spider form.
 
#18
Lol I don't like how people come up with some stupid ideas like "new demonic df type", like dude that's the point of mythical zoans revealing abilities that are derived from mythologies, which demons are part of, that stance doesn't even make any sense

They are simply mythical zoans, end of. Maybe with some sprinkle of that ope ope no mi surgery from the past.

As you said people came up with dumb shit for Kaido too when it was obvious he has the dragon fruit until Big Mom outright spelled it out for them.

"Kaido is a dragon that can transform into an oni" even Kinemon said otherwise way earlier

Common sense
 
#19
Lol I don't like how people come up with some stupid ideas like "new demonic df type", like dude that's the poinf of mythical zoans revealing abilities that are derived from mythologies, which demons are part of, that stance doesn't even make any sense

They are simply mythical zoans, end of. Maybe with some sprinkle of that ope ope no mi surgery from the past.
Exactly, Saturn has shown literally nothing that falls outside the scope of what's possible for a mythical zoan.

And any extra special sauce on top of that is more than likely just a byproduct of the immortality surgery.
 
#20
As much as I’d love the gorosei to be interesting because merely new Zoan users directly after Wano would feel stale af. There’s a solid chance they’re just devil fruit users. Like Saturn probably just has the Kumo Kumo no mi Mythical Model Gyuki

But it would be more fun if they were demons like tot musica.
 
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